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Kudos to vadalaz on an outstanding Prince Tilted Axis Diplomacy game as Austria. Cromagnus had established a really high bar long ago, and it was finally cleared.

I had given that one a try several times-- either I couldn't get to Printing Press effectively fast enough or else I couldn't get everything done for the win by Cromagnus' T211. On a Tilted Axis map vadalaz' T210 win is incredibly fast. Well played!

Props also to blatc and Dines for playing some seriously intense Deity games. Huge Deity Domination is not for the faint of heart, and sub-200 Deity Science wins are serious accomplishments.

Thanks for the comments.
My goal is to become the master of deity, marathon, pangea, standard+(size)
But one record is a major challenge: vadalaz´ huge Arabia at 140 bc.
I guess i should buy the last of the DLC´s, so i can take a look at your game, but that will further delay the time until i can upgrade my pc, and try civ6 ;-)

I bow down to your skill already, as Deity Domination is tough to master. I did a few NiceoneEmlyn specials (Deity, Huge, Marathon, Tiny Islands) and saw what that took. I have done a few Deity Domination on Duel and Tiny Maps for VVV purposes, but Standard size and beyond is a serious undertaking. You need to know all the tricks of the trade in Deity conquest.

Good luck besting some of those stellar vadalaz efforts. I enjoyed reading the posts on some of the Deity Domination gauntlets or challenges; it was interesting stuff on how to manage the Deity AI civs. That seems just as, if not even more, important than the unit tactics.

Thanks, I was actually going for a sub-200 timing there, but the Huns spawned on a different continent despite the map being a "Pangaea", which almost took me too long to find.

Nice games yourself, by the way. Both gauntlets, a gold medal and two 500+ turn Marathon games - well done.

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Wow, getting the T210 Diplomacy with one of those non-Pangaea "Pangaeas" on Tilted Axis without the Huns to help out a bit is great work. I have been experimenting with Science and peaceful Diplomacy victories a bit, and was maybe going to try to beat Cromagnus' time with a wide peaceful Diplo game assuming I could get one of those salt-filled Tilted Axis starts. If I can get my wide science games going full guns, I may still give it a shot.

Thanks. None of my games were earthshaking, but I am largely just getting familiar with certain settings again, and filling in some VVV holes, with an eye toward hitting six figures in the VVV score as long as I've made it this far. Fast Science wins (or peaceful Diplomacy wins in that vein) have always been something I have felt I needed to get better at to achieve, so I am working on approaches to hit some low times there.

The conquest part of Diplomacy wins (to hit World Leader vote at Atomic Theory) has always made them a bit of a slog for me with the time-consuming conquest, especially as you need to take the time and care to get EVERYTHING else beside the conquest part just about PERFECT to hit a really early World Leader vote. There is definitely a great feeling of satisfaction once you've gotten it done, but it always leaves me a bit drained . Your very fast Diplomacy wins always impress me the most, because I know exactly how many balls need to be juggled in the air properly to get there!

I know you and Manpanzee have shown Conquest can kick butt in Science victories too, and for many (most?) settings you can't beat conquering all but 2 AI civs in Diplomacy wins, but I am hoping to make peaceful approaches hit some decently fast times as well .

So, i managed to beat the "weakest" of niceoneemlyns records, England, largeislands, pushing the record from 990ad to 715ad.
But its really not my playing style. Naval maps is already a lot of waiting, and no action, and it seems like OCC is actually the best tactic.
It took just 32 turns to take the remaing 9 capitals and instantly raze them, after navigation was developed.
but i think i prefer the grind, and big land battles....

So, i managed to beat the "weakest" of niceoneemlyns records, England, largeislands, pushing the record from 990ad to 715ad.
But its really not my playing style. Naval maps is already a lot of waiting, and no action, and it seems like OCC is actually the best tactic.
It took just 32 turns to take the remaing 9 capitals and instantly raze them, after navigation was developed.
but i think i prefer the grind, and big land battles....

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Congrats on your victories so far!

Yes, the naval battles are a lot of waiting, especially at the slower speeds, and the win time depends a lot on your initial island mass. There are still some good standard size map and higher, standard speed and slower domination games there. I concur with vadalaz the Huns are fun, and you should try the Mongols as well. There is a Deity Great Plains Std/Std Mongol Domination win in the HoF I have been meaning to try I know.

I think the mongol record you are refferring to is the marathon one ? And i have pushed that back to 1220 bc.(see next upgrade) Never made it to keshiks.....

In my transition from marathon to standard, im having a go at the Epic, Large, Zulu, tilted axis.(1545ad)
I took me many restarts, but i did push it back to 1370.
Unfortunately, i reloaded twice, because of 2 stupid clicking errors, so i cant submit it.
But now i know the recipe

I didn't get on the Go the Distance chart though I've completed all the maps. I looked to see what I'm missing, and it's standard - which I did very early on. Do I have to do all these during a single update?